Words of the day
General February 14th, 2008
I subscribe to two Word of the Day (WotD) mailing lists. One from dictionary.com, and the other from urbandictionary.com (ie: the English you should use and the English you really do use.) They mail out at different times overnight but wind up next to each other in my inbox in the morning. I enjoy it when they juxtapose themselves. I’m sure they’re not planned to coincide as often as they ironicly do.
For example, yesterday, the urbandictionary.com WotD was “Viagrate” — to imbue with lasting vigor. (Verbifying the popular ED drug.)
It was closely followed by dictionary.com’s perdurable — very durable; lasting; continuing long.
I giggled a little. Happy Valentine’s Day (VD) all!
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Today’s is even better! D has ‘ennui’: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest; boredom.
UD has ‘dragging balls’: taking too much time to complete a task, procrastinating, never ending, slow paced.
Now that’s funny.
Today it’s bragadocious and abdominate.